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Live and let live
- We should live the life we choose and allow others to do the same.
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Idioms and Phrases
Show tolerance for those different from yourself. For example, I'm not going to tell my sister what to do—live and let live, I say . [First half of 1600s]Discover More
Example Sentences
It is easy to say, as has been said, that the essential trait of the scientific life of to-day is its live-and-let-live character.
Instead of crying, "Pereant qui ante nos nostra cantaverunt," he believes in a live-and-let-live policy.
I fancy the elephants would have been gentler masters than we: more live-and-let-live in allowing other species to stay here.
Moreover, he was an essentially peaceful person, a live-and-let-live man.
Men are in this matter more tolerant, more live-and-let-live in their ways.
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